According to WIPO, “The goal of the meeting [was] to raise the awareness of Member States on the complexities underlining a vast variety of licensing practices in different sectors, including the online market for music, the software industry and open access publishing… The global meeting provide[d] an opportunity for the exchange of national and regional experiences and information.”

As part of that information exchange, Victoriano Colodrón, executive director of RightsDirect, briefly provided a summary of that new organization’s own efforts across Europe. As a European subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center, RightsDirect provides flexible copyright licensing solutions to multinational corporations seeking ways to navigate the complexities of cross-border copyright issues.

“The employees of multinational corporations need to be able to re-use and share text materials across boundaries in a lawful and seamless way,” Colodrón told the audience.